Modelling of a production process of irreversible strains in a material of a thick-walled cylindrical tube under the influence of inner pressure

Abstract

This article considers the processes of the accumulation of irreversible strains in an elastoviscoplastic material of a thick-walled cylindrical tube in the framework of small strains. The material is deformed under the action of uniform inner pressure changing with time. Irreversible strains accumulate in the material by means of two different mechanisms, namely creep and plastic flow. Initially, whereas stresses increase in the deformed body due to mechanical influence, irreversible strains are produced as creep strains because of the viscous material properties. When the stress state reaches a loading surface, the production mechanism of irreversible strains becomes plastic. When unloading, this sequence in the production mechanisms is opposite, i.e. the fast plastic mechanism is replaced by the slow viscous one. The continuity in the growth of irreversible strains is provided by the corresponding setting of creep and plastic potentials. The possibility of the use of these potentials in the form of piecewise linear functions is investigated. It makes possible to use the developed mathematical formalism of the ideal plasticity theory. The creep and plastic flow processes under increasing and constant inner pressures are considered. The unloading process and repeated plastic flow under decreasing inner pressure, the stress relaxation after the full removal of a loading force are investigated. The reversible and irreversible strains, stresses and displacements in the medium are calculated. The laws of the motion of elastoplastic boundaries in the cylindrical layer are determined.